TheCoelacanth

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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
> ALA defines a “ban” as the removal of materials from a library based on the objections of a person or group. A “challenge” is an attempt to have a library resource removed, or access to it restricted, based on the objections of a perso
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Using the cost to print instead of the full cost of production is very misleading. Someone needs to write, edit, typeset, market, etc. the books. Most books don't sell a ton of copies, so there usually isn't a lot of profit left o
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
That's not really the reason. Even in a civil case, the first amendment certainly would apply to whatever laws allow the civil case to happen. However, the first amendment is not absolute. Defamation is still a thing in the US. The fir
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
It is. It's incredibly obvious that building more housing increases the amount of housing available.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Where do you see developers buying up units to tear them down and replace them with the same number of units? When I see properties getting redeveloped it's usually a tiny house getting replaced with an apartment building. Often it&#x2
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
I think that a government should be able to ban murdering people but that it would very sketchy for them to ban it for some people and not others. One of the most important foundations of democracy is that the law applies to everyone equall
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. This is part of the US constitution. There's no "if they h
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Reporting what you heard someone say is the literal definition of hearsay. If you want to use someone saying something as evidence in court, they need to say it to the court as directly as is practical. If the person saying it isn't go
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Repeating something that you heard someone say is the literal definition of hearsay. Typically courts want to hear about facts from people who actually know those facts, not someone who heard someone talking about those facts. This would fa
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Yes, if they went back to being chronological feeds of people you follow, then they should get to keep Section 230 immunity. When they are making editorial decisions about what to content to promote to you and what content to hide from you,
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
"Not expensive" is a ridiculous claim. In another week or two we will have spent as much as the Department of Transportation's entire annual budget. Worse than that, Iran has now proven that they have the ability to wreck the
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
You are completely misconstruing his argument. It has nothing to do with lack of introspection. It is that war was ubiquitous and accepted as a positive thing in society, unlike now where it is viewed as at best a necessary evil.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
That would just render the blockade entirely pointless. Prices are going up in the US because oil is a global market, not because that specific oil would actually have been delivered to the US.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
I think "soft target" means it doesn't have a lot of military defenses, not that it's unimportant.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Parties would be more interesting if the balloons were filled with hydrogen gas anyway.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Does the value of that political objective outweigh the costs? Considering that it resulted in mass starvation among their own people, I doubt it. A war that doesn't achieve a political objective has no benefit, so any cost outweighs t
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
You're just demonstrating that most modern wars have no winner. If you didn't achieve a political objective, you didn't win.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Decapitation strikes work well in highly personalist regimes (e.g. Russia). They work poorly in institutionalist regimes. Iran is extremely institutionalist. You could keep killing leaders for years and they will just be replaced with simil
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
This war is unwinnable because there is no possible benefit that will outweigh the cost. You don't win a war when you cause the most destruction to your enemy. You win when you achieve a political objective.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Libraries don't get it right the first time, but there are often multiple competing libraries which allows more experimentation and finding the right abstraction faster.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Good code is easy to replace and bad code is hard to replace, so bad code is disproportionately long-lived.
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
Perpetuity is insane. You shouldn't be able to name something "Ramses" without permission even though he's been dead for over 3000 years? I could see maybe 20 years after death being reasonable.
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
Truth is far from the only defense. Opinion is not defamatory. Satire is not defamatory. With public officials like police, even false factual statements are not defamatory unless you knew they were false and lied about it specifically to h
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
The bar for defamation is much higher for public officials like police than it is for private citizens. Also, while that is a very stupid and racist statement, I don't believe it is defamatory. If you falsely claimed specific crimes, t
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
Doesn't really matter since police officers are public officials. The bar for defaming a public official is actual malice, which is clearly not the case here. They need to prove that he deliberately said facts that he knew were false w
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
At least with the Red Sea there's the option of going the other way around Africa.
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
Venice's system also involved random selection, though in a very convoluted way. There were multiple repeated iterations where they selected a random group of eligible people and then that group voted to select a group who would then h
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
27th amendment was about congressional salaries and had basically no effect on governance. 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18 for state and local elections and had no effect on national elections (statute already set the national v
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by TheCoelacanth 7mo ago
Extrapolating the politics of people who stayed based on the politics of people who chose to leave is not going to get you very far.
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by TheCoelacanth 8mo ago
Many standard practices become illegal when you have the amount of market power that Amazon does.

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